Joan Lingard Quotes
I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.
Quotes to Explore
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
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It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.
